Do daca students need to pay penalty for no health insurance

As a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) individual, you are indeed exempt from the (2016) requirement to have health insurance, or pay a tax penalty for not having it.  The Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) contains provisions that exempt DACA persons from the tax penalty.  You can read more about that at the following website:

http://obamacarefacts.com/questions/will-penalties-include-daca-recipients/

However, if you are in the DACA program, you should otherwise consider yourself a resident alien for tax purposes.  As such, you are subject to generally the same US income tax reporting rules and laws as are full US citizens.  In fact, for income tax purposes, you will treat yourself no differently, and you should file the same Form 1040 (or 1040A or 1040EZ) that everyone else does, provided they are US citizens or resident aliens.

Therefore, in order to take the DACA health care penalty exemption (Code "C" on Form 8965), on your tax return, and get this to generate properly in the TurboTax program, you should visit the Heath Insurance section tab of the main federal program, and proceed to answer the interview questions in a manner identical to (or very similar to, depending on your version of the TurboTax software) the screen-capture images below.  Simply click the pictures to open. 

Completing the health care interview in this manner will cause Code C to appear on Form 8965 (the Obamacare tax penalty exemption form).  These steps have been checked and verified in the program.

a health tab does not appear for me.